Cannot use Facebook – Monitored by work with some strangely draconian measures taken if they deem your posting to have the potential to damage the company, their image or the prospect of placing you with clients. Basically not worth the hassle of explaining any post they choose to pick on.

Awesome! People in the office gave this about an 8.5 out of 10 for gruesomeness.

What’s the score with it now? Is it fused, or does it have some movement in it? Have they said how long it will take to heal up properly yet, or is that purely dependent on how quickly the post-op infection takes to clear up?

Cannot use Facebook – Monitored by work with some strangely draconian measures taken if they deem your posting to have the potential to damage the company, their image or the prospect of placing you with clients. Basically not worth the hassle of explaining any post they choose to pick on.

Is this becasue you are using a company mobile or do they actually monitor your personal online usage from any device?

Need to wait 12 weeks for then to decide whether to fuse, amputate or leave along.

How did I do it? Saving small children from a wild eagle attack while balanced on a ladder for charity*

*some if this sentence is true

Previously – leg bone pushing out to the left forming white circle. Foot completely dislocated and moving up the shin. Heel totally dislocated and moving forward with the tib and fib resting hard against it. Talus bone which should be on the end of the leg bones is hiding out of shot to the right of the leg bones

I remember my temp back slab being taken off the day after I had mine pinned and plated (not quite as impressive as yours mind..). As the cut down the middle and pulled the two sides apart it opened up the wounds on both sides and blood pished out.. I fainted- prob due to the amount of blood lost quickly.. Ahem.

I don’t think that my suggestion of an Ilizarov would necessarily have done the trick, it looks pretty complicated down there.

I had a fracture blister on my leg just above the ankle but I was lucky as it didn’t pop, it simply dried up and withered away after a couple of months. It’s weird as it seemed to me at the time that the thing the doctors knew least about was the cause of fracture blisters.

I know you know this but keep everything as clean as you can, I used chlorhexidine twice a day to clean the places where the wires entered my leg etc. Bone infection is something that you really do not want!

the thing the doctors knew least about was the cause of fracture blisters.

I had an interesting conversation with on the the Drs/Nurses about this.

Me) I have Googled this and seems they are quite rare and no-one has a firm policy on how to deal with fracture blisters, what is this hospitals policy?
Them ) It is under review
Me) What was it?
Them ) It was out of date and we can’t discuss it
Me ) What is the current practise?
Them ) It is under review
Me ) So what are you going to do? Google suggests leaving the ones that don’t burst alone and de-roofing the ones that have burst to remove the risk of infection from dead skin
Them ) Sounds reasonable, we will do that then
Me ) Would I get a different treatment if I used Bing instead og Google?
Them ) Don’t be stupid, no-one uses Bing. Pass the iodine…

I should heal up but there is 0% chance of the blood supply to the ankle joint surviving. This means that rather than the bone growing back and healing it will remain highly fragmented.

They have a couple of screws holding the bottom of the tibeia on and a couple of screws holding the two biggest bits of the talus together but a lot of the rest is just rubble.

They need to decide if they should leave me walking on the remains of the ankle and hope it holds or try and fuse the joint. From what I have read, fusing the joint basically means encouraging the bones to grow together by removing their protective layer. Not sure how this works if the bones are not growing. If those two options aren’t viable I shall be getting a direct implant SPD grafted on where the foot used to be.

it seems a shame that we can’t* put your ‘good’ leg in an MRI scanner, produce some 3d STL images of your bones, and make some mirrored copies in a 3D printer** – and pop these in to replace your shattered bones…